Fishing chair



Oct. 6, 1964 A. LARSON 3,

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FISHING CHAIR Filed May 29, 1963 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 INVENTOR. ARVID LARSON @TTORNEY United States Patent 3,151,910 FISHING CHAIR Arvid Larson, 2990 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Filed May 29, 1963, Ser. No. 284,084 4 Claims. (Cl. 297349) This invention relates to chairs, and more particularly to chairs of the type employed on boats by fishermen, and it has for one of its objects the provision of a chair which is mounted for rotative movement as required for the needs of the fisherman, and also provided with other features of adjustment by means of which the comfort and convenience of the fisherman is secured during the use of the chair.

It is an object of the invention to provide a chair of the character described which can be easily mounted in operative position or demounted when desired; which is provided with means which assures its smooth rotative movement around a vertical axis; which has locking means for retaining it in any selected position of adjustment, and which has an adjustable foot rest and an adjustable back.

More particularly, the invention contemplates the provision of a chair seat that is mounted on a vertical hollow standard rotative in a base or support fastened to a boat deck; of means for mounting a foot rest in a manner to enable the same to be adjusted toward or away from the seat or raised or lowered to meet the physical requirements of the individual user, and of wheeled supports and tracks therefor to attain the smooth travel of the chair when it is rotatively moved by its occupant.

With these and other objects to be hereinafter set forth in view, I have devised the arrangement of parts to be described and more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein an illustrative embodiment of the invention is disclosed,

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a fishing chair constructed in accordance with the invention;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the same;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 33 of FIG. 2, looking iri the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 44 of FIG. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 55 of FIG. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 6 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 66 of FIG. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 77 of FIG. 5, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 88 of FIG. 6, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 9 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 99 of FIG. 3, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 10 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 1010 of FIG. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

FIG. 11 shows the pivotal mounting of the rod-receiving thimble;

FIG. 12 shows one of the roller-carrying supporting legs, and

FIG. 13 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 13-13 of FIG. 12, looking in the direction of the arrows.

3,151,910 Patented Oct. 6, 1964 Ice Referring to the drawings, it will be therein seen that the fishing chair is mounted upon a deck 5 or other suitable part of a fishing boat, and such chair includes a vertical supporting post or tubular standard 6 mounted on a base member which includes a plate or flange 7 fastened to the deck 5 by means of bolts 8 (FIG. 5) or other suitable fastening elements.

Connected to the plate or flange 7 by means of screws 10 (FIG. 3) is a hollow casting 9 in the form of an upstanding boss. The standard 6 is provided at its lower end with an inserted plug 11, attached to the standard by pins 55, with said plug having a part that engages an opening 12 in the casting 9. The standard 6 and its attached plug 11 are held to the casting 9 by means of a key plate 13 secured to the bottom of the plug 11 by means of a screw 14. A hood 56 is provided around the lower end of the standard, said hood being attached to the standard by means of a bolt and it covers and encloses the parts just described. The hood seats against an annular shoulder 61 provided on the casting 9.

The key plate 13 is adapted to pass through an opening 15 formed in a flange 16 on the casting 9 when it is desired to demount the chair. This arrangement permits rotative movement of the standard 6 and the chair supported by it and it also permits of the demounting of the standard and its attached chair. A brake band 17 is provided with a projecting operating rod 18 which is operative manually or by the foot of the chair occupant to lock the chair in any position during its rotation.

At its upper end, the standard 6 is attached by a bolt 19 to a collar 20 provided at its upper end with a radial flange 21, secured by means of the bolts 22 to the chair bottom or seat 23. The seat 23 may be padded or provided with a cushion as shown at 40. Adjacent to its forward end, the chair bottom is provided with a pair of downwardly-extending legs 24 each of which is provided at the top with a flange 26 secured to the chair bottom 23 by means of bolts 25.

The legs 24 are roller-supported as will be described, and are connected by an arcuate angle brace member 27 which, in addition to being attached to the legs 24, is also secured by welding or otherwise, to spaced vertical braces or posts 28 which have their upper ends connected to the chair bottom at its forward end.

The chair bottom 23 is slotted in its forward end as shown at 29 to thereby clear a rod-receiving thimble 30, which thimble is provided with diametrically-opposite pintles 68 (FIG. 11) which pivotally mount the thimble between the braces 28.

Rod sockets 31 are provided on each side of the chair. Arm rests are shown at 32, the same being supported by brackets or posts 33 extending upwardly from the chair bottom and which are flanged at their lower ends as shown at 34 for mounting them by bolts 34a upon the seat bottom 23. At the rear end of the seat bottom 23 is mounted a number of sockets 35, secured to the seat bottom by screws 36, and said sockets adjustably receive a seat back 37.

' A foot rest for the chair is shown at 38 and the same includes a frame 41 having projecting serrated ears 42 adjustably attached to serrated heads 44 provided on the ends of a pair of foot-rest-supporting arms 45. Said arms 45 extend across the top of the arcuate brace member 27 and are supported thereon. A clamping band 46 encircles the standard 6, and the arms 45 are bent toward one another at their ends remote from the foot rest as indicated at 47, and these arms have their ends provided with a number of notches 48. These notched portions of the arms 45 pass through lugs 49 projecting radially from the clamping band 46. By the engagement of selected notches 48 with the lugs 49 it is possible to bring the foot rest toward or away from the seat and requirements of different persons using the chair. The

clamping band 46 is also vertically adjustable on the standard 6 to thereby raise or lower the foot rest.

Each of the legs 24 is provided at its lower end with a hood or housing 50 in which a roller 51 is rotatively mounted by means of an axle 52 and the rollers 51 respectively move on arcuate trackways 53 mounted on top of the deck by means of the screws 54.

From the foregoing, the uses and advantages of the described construction will be apparent. The chair is readily demounted by registering the lock plate 13 with the aperture 15 and vertically lifting the chair and its attached parts, such as the standard 6, frame 27 and other parts upwardly to free the lower end of the standard from its coupling to the casting 9.

It will be noted that the band 36 is clamped around the standard 6 by means of a clamping handle 57 so that the band can be raised or lowered to vertically adjust the foot rest, and which band is loosened by the manual actuation of the handle 57 when it is desired to demount the seat. Similarly, the brake band 17 is loosened to permit of the free lifting movement of the chair.

The chair is freely rotative while in use when desired, or it can be held firmly against a rotative movement by means of the brake 17 and with the adjustability of its back rest and foot rest, by means of the construction herein described, the comfort and convenience of the fisherman is assured while he is engaging in his piscatorial pursuits.

As further means to brace the rail 27 and the legs 24,

there has been illustrated in dotted lines a brace bar 69. The brace bar is preferably of T-shape and is bolted at its forward end to the rail 27 while its rear end is forked to receive the bolt 60. The brace bar 69 may or may not be employed.

' Having thus described a single embodiment of the invention, it is obvious that the same is not to be restricted thereto, but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A fishermans chair comprising, a chair bottom, cups at the rear end of the chair bottom for the reception of a chair back, posts extending upwardly from the chair bottom, arm-rests supported at the top of the posts, a standard secured to the chair bottom and extending downwardly therefrom, a base member mounted on a boat deck, said base member rotatively receiving the lower end of the standard, a brake device applicable to hold the standard and the chair bottom mounted thereon against rotative movement, a pair of spaced supporting legs extending downwardly from the chair bottom at points remote from the standard, a curved brace member extending between said legs, posts extending between the chair bottom and the curved brace member, a rod-receiving thimble pivotally mounted between the posts, a pair of arms disposed above and having parts projecting forwardly of the curved brace member, said parts of the arms adjustably engaging a foot rest, means vertically adjustable on the standard for engaging the ends of the arms remote from the foot rest, the arms being longitudinally adjustable through such means.

2. A fishermans chair as provided for in claim 1, wherein the arm-engaging means on the standard is a clamp encircling the standard, and means for obtaining a clamping effect of the clamp on the standard to hold the ends of the arms in any position of vertical adjustment.

3. A fishermans chair comprising, a base member and means for mounting it on a supporting surface, a tubular standard having one end rotatively mounted in said base member and capable of being vertically removed therefrom, brake means for retaining the standard in any desired position of halt, a seat supported by the standard, legs extending downwardly from the seat, rollers carried by the legs, a foot rest, arms on which the foot rest is mounted, a clamp adjustable on the standard, the arms being adjustable through the clamp to thereby bring the foot rest toward or away from the standard, the standard being provided at its lower end with a locking key, the base member having an aperture permitting passage of the locking key when it is desired to lift the standard away from the base member, the'legs being connected by an arcuate brace, posts extending between said brace and the seat, and a fishing rod thimble pivotally supported between the posts.

4. A fishermans chair comprising, a seat bottom, a V

hollow post extending downwardly therefrom, a hood arranged around the lower end of the post, a base plate mounted on the deck, a boss arising from the base plate and having its top extending into the hood, a brake band engaging the post and restraining the same from pivotal movement, means for supporting the post on the boss to permit of the rotative movement of the post, a clamp encircling the post, lugs projecting from the clamp, notched foot-rest-supporting arms extending through the lugs and longitudinally adjustable therethrough and maintainable in any selected position of adjustment by selective engagement of the notches with the lugs, the clamp being vertically adjustable on the post, a curved brace that extends between and connects the legs, the foot-restsupporting arms resting upon said brace, vertical posts extending between the curved brace and the seat bottom, and a rod-receiving thimble pivotally mounted between said posts.

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1. A FISHERMAN''S CHAIR COMPRISING, A CHAIR BOTTOM, CUPS AT THE REAR END OF THE CHAIR BOTTOM FOR THE RECEPTION OF A CHAIR BACK, POSTS EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE CHAIR BOTTOM, ARM-RESTS SUPPORTED AT THE TOP OF THE POSTS, A STANDARD SECURED TO THE CHAIR BOTTOM AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY THEREFROM, A BASE MEMBER MOUNTED ON A BOAT DECK, SAID BASE MEMBER ROTATIVELY RECEIVING THE LOWER END OF THE STANDARD, A BRAKE DEVICE APPLICABLE TO HOLD THE STANDARD AND THE CHAIR BOTTOM MOUNTED THEREON AGAINST ROTATIVE MOVEMENT, A PAIR OF SPACED SUPPORTING LEGS EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE CHAIR BOTTOM AT POINTS REMOTE FROM THE STANDARD, A CURVED BRACE MEMBER EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID LEGS, POTS EXTENDING BETWEEN THE CHAIR 